Group Members

Ben Dougen

Ben received his bachelor’s in Neuroscience and master’s in Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities working with the Carroll and Kerlin labs respectively. His interest is in reward circuitry as it pertains to addiction and discovery of new treatments for addiction pathology. His goal is to combine classical behavioral methods with new technologies in neuroimaging to better understand the molecular and cellular underpinnings that give rise to the complex behaviors exhibited during addiction.
email: bdougen@gmail.com

Hoyeon Jang

Hoyeon received his bachelors degree at Hanyang University ERICA campus with a major in Computer Science. He is interested in the intersection of reinforcement learning models and brain inspired artifical intelligence. To that end, his goal is to pursue study of neural signals (especially reward) in the brain via computer model based approaches.
email: hoyeon912@g.skku.edu

Seungyub Lee

Seungyub is majoring in Global Biomedical Engineering at SKKU. He is interested in interpreting various phenomena such as learning through imagination and dreams through the overall mechanism of brain function. Recently, He is also interested in learning during unconsciousness, and he try to observe the results using optogenetics and fMRI.
email: yubkee@g.skku.edu

• URP, 2021 summer; BS/MS program

Jongwon Yun

Jongwon is majoring in Global Biomedical Engineering at SKKU. He joined this lab since he was fascinated by Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). He wants to study how the neural signals are processed and applied to more advanced ANN models. In line with that, he is currently working on collecting neural data using Neuropixels and analyzing the neural data.
email: tiramica@g.skku.edu

• URP, 2021 winter; BS/MS program

Mijoo Park

Mijoo is majoring in Biomedical Engineering at SKKU. She is widely interested in emotional feedbacks made from stimuli and neural mechanims of decision making in interaction with outside-world. She wishes to explore and learn how brain works with different steps happening inside. By studying in this lab, she is expecting to narrow her interest through chances.
email: miju0218@g.skku.edu

• URP, 2021 winter; BS/MS program

Rin Wang

Rin is majoring in Psychology at SKKU. She is primarily interested in mental disorders they impact social interactions. While studying in the NeuRLab, she is focused on discovering the relationship between empathy and the reward system. Additionally, she aims to produce research that can aid in reducing prejudice against mental disorders and foster a healthy society where everyone’s mental health can flourish.
email: wang215@g.skku.edu

• 2022, Co-Deep Learning (Gtopia)

Jaebin Yoon

Jaebin is majoring in Biological Science at SKKU. Broadly, he is interested in how learning in the brain modulates its circuitry and ultimately its behavioral changes. In joining the NeuRLab, Jaebin hopes to narrow his focus and refine his research topic.
email: gkwl622@g.skku.edu

Dea Nathania Hendryanti

Thania received her B.S degree and awarded as Best Graduate Student in Food Technology major from Soegijapranata Catholic University (SCU), Indonesia. Subsequently, she completed her M.S. degree at Ewha Womans University, South Korea where she focused on food functionality, metabolic pathways and non-communicable diseases using animal models. From 2015-2023, she held a position as an assistant professor of Nutrition and Functional Food at SCU – Indonesia. By joining NeuRLab and pursuing her Ph.D degree, she wishes to establish a bridge between nutritional science and neuroscience research. Her research is currently focused on the nature of dopamine subsystems and internal states in driving nutrient homeostasis.
email: deanathania17@gmail.com

• google scholar

Si Shen

Si received his bachelor’s degree in Control Science and Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology, China. He is interested in the computational models of the brain with their applications. His goal is to combine his previous research background in systems engineering and mathematics with neural recording techniques and data analysis methods to promote the development of computational models.
email: sishen@g.skku.edu

Jihye Yang

Jihye has an interest in dopamine dynamics while association and dissociation occur in the brain. Through studying correlations between neural activity and behavior, she pursues a feasible method to help people who suffer from memories with unpleasant emotions evoked, such as PTSD. Since she received her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Bioscience, she ideally wishes to integrate her knowledge of molecular neuroscience with circuitry or behavioral level in a computational way. This lab makes Yang fascinated with state-of-the-art techniques for analyzing dopamine activities corresponding to behaviors - which deepens her understanding of various dopamine responses involved in Reward Prediction Errors (RPEs) and Punishment Prediction Errors (PPEs).
email: sophia.yang@g.skku.edu

Lumi Lee

Lumi is majoring in Global Biomedical Engineering at SKKU. While working in a brain science club in high school, she developed her dream of becoming a brain cognitive scientist. She is especially interested in how we feel emotions, remember things and perceive ourselves through the brain. By joining this lab, she wishes to learn the principles of how brain mechanisms work directly through various experiments and further incorporate them into brain engineering technology.
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• URP, 2021 summer

Nawoon Kwon

Nawoon is majoring in Global Biomedical Engineering at SKKU. She is interested in how different stimuli effect different neural mechanisms. By joining this lab, she wishes to explore the way visual environmental inputs effect the neural decision making mechanism. She also hopes to explore various neural activities and narrow her interest in studying.

• ExCool, 2022; URP, 2022 winter

Graduate students and researchers

• Hogyu Choi. Hogyu Choi was a researcher, 2021-2022. He is currently in Ph.D. program at UC Riverside.

• Jihwan Kim. 2022-2024 (M.S.)

• Yelda Asgari. 2022-2024 (M.S.)

Undergraduate research assistants

• Gwang Je Ahn was in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering at SKKU (2021). He was the first SKKU student who bravely contacted HyungGoo when the lab was not open.

• Minsun Seong, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2021).

• Taeyeon Weon, Biological Science at Korea University (2021).

• Jiwon Bu, Biological Sciences at Imperial College London (2021). She is in Cantas Alev’s lab at Kyoto University studying developmental biology.

• Wooyoung Cho, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2021). He pioneered the Slack alert system in the lab.

• Chanho Jang, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2021).

• Dongmin Sa, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2021).

• Hyeongdo Jeon, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2021).

• Hyeyoon Jung, Biology and Psychology at Korea University (2021).

• Jaecheol Park, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2021). He wrote an undergraduate thesis entitled “Comparison of neural activity between biological and recurrent neural network”.

• Lumi Lee, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2021 - 2022, URP).

• Sohee Moon, Integrative Biotechnology at SKKU (2022, URP).

• Yejin Lee, Integrative Biotechnology at SKKU (2022, URP).

• Seongha Choi, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2022, ExCool).

• Hyujun Gu, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2022, ExCool).

• Yunah Lee, Integrative Biotechnology at SKKU (2022, URP).

• Siyoung Choi, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2021-2).

• GunWoo Kim, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2022, Co-Deep Learning (Gtopia)).

• JeonSeok Baek, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2022, Co-Deep Learning (Gtopia)).

• Jinhwan Jeong, Integrative Biotechnology at SKKU (2022, URP).

• Yewon Cho, Integrative Biotechnology at SKKU (2022, URP).

• Yeowon Kim, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2022-2023, URP).

• Hyunsu Kim, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2022-2023).

• Jongheon Kim, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2022-2023, URP).

• Sohyun Park, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2023, ExCool).

• Seonju Kim, Biomedical Engineering at SKKU (2023, ExCool).

• Yubin Park, Medicine at Wonkwang University (Jan-Feb, 2024).

• Wonjun Kim, Integrative Biotechnology at SKKU (2024, URP).

• Hyoeun Ji, Integrative Biotechnology at SKKU (2024, URP).

• JinWoo Hyun, Integrative Biotechnology at SKKU (2024, URP).